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The Stimulus Checks Are Gone... Americans Spent It All
By Marc Gerstein, director of research, Chaikin Analytics
Almost three years ago, the COVID-19 pandemic crippled the economy...
Public venues shut down and our borders closed to try to prevent the virus from spreading. All the major sports leagues stopped playing. And all types of travel stopped operating.
Folks couldn't spend on flights, cruises, or other fun activities. So in turn, they hunkered down...
In April 2020, the average American household was saving more than a third of its income. That's massive. (The government pumping more than $800 billion in "stimulus" checks into people's pockets also helped.)
Ultimately, as we know, the economy as a whole bounced back from the darkest days of the pandemic. And before long, the stock market once again marched on to record highs.
But over the past year, a huge shift started unfolding...
Surging inflation caused prices to increase rapidly. And in order to keep up, Americans began burning through their savings faster than ever before.
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If an American citizen wanted to visit the Lincoln Memorial should a Muslim or Palestinian have the right to prevent that from happening?
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Is Israel really threatened by Ben-Gvir’s Temple Mount gambit?
Worries about terrorism, the alienation of allies and international condemnations are real. But denying Hamas a veto over Jerusalem and asserting Jewish rights also brings benefits.
By JONATHAN S. TOBIN
(January 4, 2023 / JNS) For those convinced that naming Itamar Ben-Gvir Israel’s minister of national security was tantamount to putting a ticking time bomb in the cabinet, his latest move was proof that they’d been right. His visit on Tuesday to the Temple Mount took place despite the reported concerns of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and warnings from the country’s security establishment, the international media and Washington that his excursion to the sacred plateau would lead to violence.
Yet, while the stunt can certainly be considered reckless, the assumption that nothing good can come from it may be wrong. Ben-Gvir’s purpose, at least in part, was to posture to his supporters—and show that he won’t allow himself to be converted into the political version of his new boss Netanyahu’s house-trained puppy. But there are also some potential benefits from his bold assertion of Jewish rights to the holy site.
A lot depends on the aftermath of the incident—on whether it sets the country on fire, as his critics are predicting, or cause a genuine rupture with Israel’s Arab allies. If the admonitions are shown to have been more bluster than leading to actual bloodshed, however, Ben-Gvir may have proved an important point.
If he is seen as successfully defying not just Netanyahu—and the chorus of those at home and abroad labeling him a rabid extremist—but calling the bluff of the terrorists, his move will have done more than merely boost his own ambition to become the leader of the right. It could be the moment when Israel fully demonstrates that it will never again allow terrorists to exercise a veto over the status of Jerusalem and its most sacred spaces.
Those who claimed that former President Donald Trump’s transfer of the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem would turn the region into an inferno of Islamist violence were wrong. The same might be true for Ben-Gvir’s detractors.
Israel may still be insisting that it will not alter the discriminatory status quo on Judaism’s holiest site, which is treated like a Muslim enclave where Jews are allowed to visit, but not pray, in an effort to mollify Jordan and other friendly Arab governments. But showing that Israeli leaders won’t be prevented from exercising that right by those who treat the tread of “stinking Jewish feet” there as blasphemy, as Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas once ranted, can also be understood as a necessary sign of strength and assertion of Jewish rights that will ultimately have to be appreciated even by those who are fulminating about Ben-Gvir’s actions.
Though his walk took place without incident, there are still worries that it will be used by Hamas, and perhaps by factions of the supposedly moderate ruling Fatah faction of the P.A., as an excuse for renewed rocket attacks or other terrorist assaults on Jews in the coming days.
It will also be the focus of a new round of Israel-bashing at the United Nations, at a special session of the Security Council requested by Jordan, the P.A. and even Israel’s close Arab ally, the United Arab Emirates. In addition to provoking the usual hysterical rhetoric from the Jewish state’s enemies like Hamas and Hezbollah, Ben-Gvir’s action was condemned by its ally the United States, Egypt and Saudi Arabia, with which it has cordial, under-the-table relations.
The fact that Netanyahu was forced to postpone a trip to the UAE after it expressed outrage over the Temple Mount issue didn’t endear Ben-Gvir to the prime minister. And leaving aside the partisan, even anti-Zionist hyperbole about his sparking a new intifada and “leading Israel to Hell,” as one Haaretz columnist put it, the incident illustrated the downside to this sort of freelancing.
Netanyahu’s main foreign-policy goal is to try to expand the Abraham Accords and get more Arab nations to normalize relations with Israel. The obstacles to that effort are considerable.
Rather than working hard for this objective, as the Trump administration did, President Joe Biden’s foreign-policy team has proven to be of little help. It’s still more interested in its failed effort to appease Iran by forging a new and even more dangerous nuclear deal, and in preserving the possibility of a two-state solution in which the Palestinians have no interest, than in doing something that might actually expand the circle of peace.
The UAE and Saudi Arabia view the P.A. with the contempt it deserves, and no longer wish to be held hostage to its intransigence. But they also still need to pay lip service to the sympathy for the Palestinians that is pervasive in the Arab and Muslim world.
The question of protecting the mosques on the Temple Mount from a mythical Jewish threat is a very sensitive topic for them. Allaying such concerns was a principal element of the American and Israeli diplomacy that led to the Abraham Accords.
Seen from that perspective, Ben-Gvir’s Temple Mount walkabout was an act of shocking irresponsibility that, at best, created an unnecessary distraction, and, at worst, sabotaged Netanyahu’s initiative, which is vital to further securing Israel’s future as a regional player with genuine Arab allies. It also torpedoed Ben-Gvir’s quest to be seen as more than just the leader of an extreme faction, and to leave behind his past as a supporter of Rabbi Meir Kahane.
There is, however, another precedent here. In the fall of 2000, then-opposition leader Ariel Sharon took his own Temple Mount walk, which many still believe sparked the Second Intifada. The truth is, however, that PLO chief Yasser Arafat, by that time the head of the P.A., had planned that terrorist war of attrition long before Sharon’s excursion, as a response to Prime Minister Ehud Barak’s failed effort to buy peace with the surrender of most of Judea and Samaria and a share of Jerusalem that the veteran Palestinian killer had turned down.
Sharon would defeat Barak and be elected prime minister only months later. Though his victory was the result of his rival’s folly, Sharon’s assertion of Jewish rights resonated with many Israelis, both religious and secular, who rightly resent the way Jews are discriminated against in their holiest place.
The problem with tiptoeing around Muslim sensibilities about the Temple Mount is that though it makes sense to avoid unnecessary trouble, keeping Jews out and refusing them equal rights to prayer there reinforces the Palestinian narrative denying the validity of Jewish history and Jewish rights to any part of Jerusalem and the country as a whole.
Trusting a man with a record as a professional provocateur like Ben-Gvir with the job of navigating through the diplomatic minefield that the Mount represents was a political necessity for Netanyahu. He probably already regrets it, since the minister is unwilling to do as he’s told.
Yet Ben-Gvir isn’t wrong to want to send a message to the Palestinians that their denial of Jewish history won’t be tolerated. Even if this wasn’t the moment that Netanyahu would have chosen for it, calling the terrorists’ bluff is also a security imperative.
There must be zero tolerance for terrorism of any kind, no matter whether it takes the form of Hamas missiles or P.A.-fomented “lone wolf” attacks on Jews, regardless of the excuse cited by Israel’s detractors.
In the long run, establishing that no one can invalidate Jewish rights on the Temple Mount sends the message to the Arab and Islamic world that Israel is here to stay and that Palestinian fantasies of its destruction must be rejected. Seen from that perspective, Ben-Gvir may still be deemed reckless, but his stunt might do far more good than harm.
Jonathan S. Tobin is editor-in-chief of JNS (Jewish News Syndicate). Follow him on Twitter at: @jonathans_tobin a senior contributor for The Federalist and a columnist for the New York Post and Newsweek. He is also the host of the Top Story podcast that can be viewed on YouTube and listened to on Spotify and other platforms.
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There Goes Netanyahu’s Saudi Dream
Ben-Gvir’s Temple Mount visit and the decision to legalize the Homesh outpost have put a dent in the prime minister’s aim of diplomatic ties with RiyadhItamar Ben Gvir after visiting the Temple Mount in March, Jerusalem.
By Jonathan Lis, HAARETZ
Just a few minutes of Itamar Ben-Gvir’s defiant stroll on Jerusalem’s Temple Mount Tuesday were enough for the international community to make it clear to Benjamin Netanyahu that it has no patience for the whims of his new government.
The flood of condemnations sent the new-old prime minister a clear message: Washington, European states, Jordan and the Arab states of the Persian Gulf expressed, in nearly identical statements, concern about the provocation of the new national security minister. The previous day it was the notification to the High Court of Justice of the coalition’s plans to amend the disengagement law and leave the settlement outpost of Homesh in place that caused an uproar in European capitals.
An ambassador from one European country described his own government’s measured response. On the one hand it criticized the new coalition’s extremist tack, but it decided there were mitigating circumstances that precluded going too far: Ben-Gvir is in fact responsible for security at the site; he visited early in the morning, when the compound was empty; he neither prayed nor tried to stir things up, and he did not stay for long.
Three weeks ago, Netanyahu laid out an optimistic vision of his intention to establish diplomatic relations with Saudi Arabia and to sweep the U.S. administration and European countries to promote the adventure. But dreams are one thing, reality another. Ben-Gvir’s Temple Mount visit and the decision regarding Homesh started Netanyahu’s new government on the wrong foot. “There is no chance of advancing relations with Saudi Arabia as long as Ben-Gvir and Smotrich are in the coalition,” said an Israeli official who is involved in the efforts. He named several additional and unrelated obstacles to moving forward.
Saudi Arabia reiterated Tuesday what it thinks about a public rapprochement with Israel. In addition to registering strong protest to Ben-Gvir’s actions, the foreign ministry in Riyadh stated that the actions “undermine international peace efforts and contradict international norms and principles of respecting religious sanctities.” The statement also reaffirmed Saudi Arabia’s “solid stance of standing by the brotherly Palestinian people,” a clear signal of the expectation of a significant improvement in Israel’s attitude toward the Palestinians.
On the eve of his inauguration, Netanyahu announced in interviews with foreign media outlets that his first official visit would be to the United Arab Emirates, the first of its kind since he signed the Abraham Accords. There are ongoing talks to this end, which may soon bear fruit, but in the past week Israel’s new friend in the Persian Gulf has also repeatedly come out clearly against the government in Jerusalem.
As the representative of the Arab League in the UN Security Council, the UAE requested Tuesday an emergency meeting of the body to discuss Ben-Gvir’s visit, on behalf of the Palestinians. And on Friday it voted in favor of the Palestinian request to ask the International Court of Justice in The Hague to issue an advisory opinion on the Israeli occupation.
U.S. Ambassador to Israel Tom Nides recently said in an interview with Haaretz that the Netanyahu government will be judged by its actions and not by the statements of its coalition partners. Ben-Gvir’s actions Tuesday led him to speak less diplomatically. “Ambassador Nides has been very clear in conversations with the Israeli government on the issue of preserving the status quo in Jerusalem’s holy sites. Actions that prevent that are unacceptable,” the embassy said in a statement.
On the eve of taking office, Netanyahu himself sought to allay concerns. In conversations with concerned leaders, he made it clear time and time again that he would be “everyone’s prime minister” and that he controls his government with both hands on the steering wheel.
He knows full well that the latest event does match what is expected of him and that it exposes a clear split with the international community that presumably cannot be reconciled – not in regard to advancing a two-state solution, not in the demand to freeze expansion and legalization of settlements and not in the demand to leave the status quo on the Temple Mount intact.
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Market thoughts:
If Fed prolongs rates and raises them further could drive economy into recession and market will go lower. If inflation continues to wane and rates are not increased, then market still likely to moderately decline because earnings are relatively low and multiple of those earning are relatively high for a slowing economy.
That said, I still expect a rally.
Fed likely to accept higher level of inflation as their target considering concern of pushing us into a recession. This means payment on debt absorbs more of GDP which is negative but, perhaps, helps to avoid recession. Labor market fairly tight so that is a positive. Overall, America's economy is out of whack. Federal Debt has increased at a much faster rate than GDP growth. Biden is a liar to say economy doing well.
Favored market sectors remain health, energy and value versus growth.
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I have been writing and warning for years about China. Even before Congress and most in the government were thinking about China. Now the issue has come full circle and Biden and company is busy turning our military into a social group and learning all about how to eat K Rations with chop sticks.
Beyond the fact China's military is now probably stronger than ours the other critical issue is China is assiduously making our citizens drug dependent thus, driving down out capabilities, competitiveness and ability to serve in the military.
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2022 Was The Year We Realised We're Now Fighting Cold War II Against China... And This Time Our Opponent Is Far More Fearsome Than Russiaby
Niall Ferguson via Daily Mail
This was the year that the dream of a new and peaceful world order was punctured for good.
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No joking matter. Democrats have turned the FBI on Musk who has become the new Trump.
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Elon Musk Mocks FBI Raid On Homes, Saying: “I Don’t Have A Home”
(JustPatriots.com)- Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, SpaceX, and Twitter, appeared to dismiss concerns about being raided by the FBI after a series of document dumps over the past two weeks revealed the bureau’s role in censoring and suspending content and users before his takeover of the platform.
According to journalist Matt Taibbi, who released the sixth “Twitter Files” installment in a lengthy thread, the FBI acted as a subsidiary of Twitter in terms of managing content and viewpoints on the platform in the years preceding Musk’s $44 billion acquisition of the company this fall.
Musk has described Twitter as a “crime scene.”
Country musician John Rich wondered aloud on Twitter how long it would be before the FBI raids @elonmusk’s home.
In response, the Twitter CEO quipped he didn’t have a home.
Five Times August jokingly replied to Musk, stating that a homeless man bought Twitter.
Musk responded with a LOL emoji.
Reports show Taibbi stated that every day, the #TwitterFiles reveal more about how the government collects, analyzes, and flags social media content. Twitter was in constant and pervasive contact with the FBI as if it were a subsidiary. Between January 2020 and November 2022, the FBI and former Twitter Trust and Safety chief Yoel Roth exchanged over 150 emails.
Taibbi described a social media task force created by the FBI after the 2016 presidential election, in which 80 agents were allegedly assigned to monitor foreign interference.
Due to the First Amendment’s protection of free speech, it did not take long for Republicans to demand answers once again. Most recent files dump appears to indicate excessive federal government interference in censorship campaigns via a social media platform, which agencies could never get away with on their own.
According to Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colorado), America needs a functioning FBI that investigates and dismantles violent gangs, sex traffickers, public corruption, terrorism, and more. But now, they are sitting around and flagging unfavorable tweets.
The FBI has lost its way.
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I believe what happened on Jan 6 was sad . It was a consequence of frustration and distrust and is a forerunner of more such events if Congress and Federal employees do not start telling the truth and serving "we the people."
Biden is possibly a crook, certainly a liar par excellence and probably mentally incapable of performing the job he was elected to.
There is no doubt a basis for the belief our elections are no longer secure and the opportunity for fraud has increased. That you no longer need show proof of who you are and there is a push for anyone to vote is radical, purposeful and dangerous.
Hanson's enumeration of events is factual and our nation has been penetrated by radicals who hate this nation and want to se it crumble and , so far, they have been successful while "we the people" slept.
We failed Franklin's warning and have not kept our Republic from being destroyed. Whether we can retrieve it or even believe it is worth saving is now a tragic reality.
Time will tell but is running out.
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Lying has turned into an art form. Politicians and now the mass media lie all the time. Those who run our cities and states lie. When a society is surrounded and served by liars it cannot survive, nor will it.
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Opinion Santos must have learned from Biden how to make up details about his past
By Marc A. Thiessen
New York Republican George Santos is a fabulist who lied to voters about his family, education and achievements. Incoming House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries (N.Y.) said in a statement that Santos’s many lies make him “woefully unqualified” and “clearly unfit to serve” in Congress. He’s right.
So, what about Joe Biden?
When it comes to making up self-serving, politically advantageous details about his past, Santos seems to have taken a page from our fabulist in chief. Let’s review the record:
Biden has lied about his family history. During the 1988 Democratic presidential primary, it emerged that he had plagiarized a speech by British Labour leader Neil Kinnock, adopting Kinnock’s family history as his own. “Why is it that Joe Biden is the first in his family ever to go to a university?” Biden asked. “Is it because I’m the first Biden in a thousand generations to get a college and a graduate degree? … My ancestors, who worked in the coal mines of northeast Pennsylvania and would come up after 12 hours and play football for four hours?”
Not only were many of the words stolen, so were the facts: Biden was not the first in his family to go to college (only the first on his father’s side), and his ancestors had not been coal miners (though a great-grandfather was a mining engineer). In 2008, he falsely told the United Mine Workers “I am a hard coal miner.” (A spokesperson said he was joking.)
Biden has also made numerous false assertions about his educational achievements. He claimed in 1987 that he had “graduated with three degrees from college,” had received an award as “the outstanding student in the political science department,” finished in the “top half” of his class at law school and received a “full academic scholarship.” None of that was true. He received a single B.A. in history and political science, had only been put up for the award by a professor, graduated 76th in a class of 85 from Syracuse College of Law, and had a partial need-based scholarship. After the Supreme Court reversed Roe v. Wade, he claimed to have written “a number of law review articles” on the right to privacy — which was untrue.
He has also falsely claimed to have been arrested multiple times for taking righteous stands. During his 2020 campaign, Biden repeatedly claimed that he was arrested in South Africa trying to visit Nelson Mandela in prison, adding that Mandela thanked him for it when he came to Washington. None of it was true.
Biden also claimed during a speech in Atlanta that he had been arrested while protesting for civil rights: “You think I’m kidding, man. It seems like yesterday the first time I got arrested.” According to the New York Times, “There is no evidence he was ever arrested during a civil-rights protest.” He has also falsely claimed to have been arrested as a college student for entering an all-female dorm, and sneaking into the U.S. Capitol. Has any president experienced so much imagined jail time?
He has also lied about his experience in war zones. In 2021, Biden told State Department employees that he was “shot at” overseas — similar to a debunked claim of being shot at inside Baghdad’s fortified Green Zone made during a Democratic presidential debate in 2007. (He later revised the claim, saying that in fact, “I was near where a shot landed.”) In 2019, he told a detailed story about brushing off warnings of danger, when he was vice president, to pin a Silver Star on a Navy captain in Afghanistan.
The Post reported that “almost every detail in the story appears to be incorrect.” It was President Barack Obama, not Biden, who gave him the award; it was the Medal of Honor, not the Silver Star; and the ceremony took place at the White House, not in Afghanistan.
Biden has lied about consoling victims of tragedy. He claimed that he met in Washington with survivors of a school shooting in Parkland, Fla., while he was vice president, even though the shooting took place in 2018, well after he left office, and that he spent time at Tree of Life synagogue, after 11 people were massacred there in 2018, but it turns out he never visited. (He spoke to the rabbi by phone.)
He has lied about his relationships with foreign leaders. In 2020, he claimed that he had gotten China to join the 2016 Paris climate accord “after meeting with Deng Xiaoping,” who died in 1997. And he has claimed more than 20 times that he had traveled 17,000 miles with Chinese President Xi Jinping — earning Biden a “Bottomless Pinocchio” from The Post.
And, of course, Biden lies constantly about his record as president. He falsely claimed to have passed his student loan forgiveness “by a vote or two.” (Congress never voted on it.) He has repeatedly falsely claimed that he has cut the federal debt in half; that “real incomes are up” (they’ve suffered the largest decline in four decades); that his Chips Act will create 1 million construction jobs (the real number is 6,200); that his Inflation Reduction Act will reduce inflation (it will not); and that none of his military commanders advised him to leave a residual force in Afghanistan (they did).
Biden’s career has been a constant stream of untruths. Yet no Democratic Party leaders have suggested that Biden is “woefully unqualified” or “unfit to serve.” Maybe Santos should switch parties and run for president — then all would be forgiven.
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January 6: A Day That Will Live in Alchemy
By Julie Kelly
In a feat of political sorcery—fueled by lies, cover-ups, and careerism—the Biden regime has transformed an unruly, four-hour protest into an act of domestic terror.
A few weeks before Christmas, federal authorities arrested a Washington state couple for their participation in the Capitol protest on January 6, 2021.
The FBI investigated Scott and Holly Christensen for more than 14 months; agents interrogated coworkers, scoured social media accounts, reviewed hours of security video from inside the Capitol building and body cam footage from law enforcement, and issued a search warrant to confirm the couple’s whereabouts that day.
“According to records obtained through legal process served on AT&T, cellphones associated with [the Christensens] were identified as having utilized a cell site consistent with providing service to a geographic area that included the interior of the United States Capitol building, on January 6, 2021, from 2:43 EST to 3:51 EST. AT&T records confirm that both devices belong to Scott CHRISTENSEN of Puyallup, Washington,” an unidentified agent on the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force wrote in a November 2022 criminal complaint.
So, what exactly did these alleged “domestic terrorists” do? They entered the Capitol through open doors as police officers stood by. Carrying no weapons, the couple took photos inside the Rotunda and wandered through some hallways; surveillance video shows Holly Christensen talking to a Capitol police officer. At another point, Scott Christensen chatted with a D.C. Metro police officer, a conversation captured on a body-worn camera. Police led the pair toward an exit door about 45 minutes later without arresting them.
For that uneventful jaunt through a public building that posed a threat to no one, the Christensens will now be destroyed by the Department of Justice, the federal court system, and the news media. Although both were charged with nonviolent misdemeanors—the same four offenses that represent the overwhelming majority of charges—journalists dishonestly portrayed the couple as traitors to their country. “Washington state couple to face Jan. 6 insurrection charges,” an Associated Press headline blared on December 12.
Which, of course, is music to the ears of the Biden regime. Two years after the events of January 6, the Justice Department is preparing to accelerate its retaliatory, destructive manhunt for Trump supporters. More than 950 people have been arrested and charged so far, a figure expected to at least double by the time the dust settles. Last year, U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Matthew Graves, the Biden appointee handling every January 6 case, hinted the total number of defendants could reach 2,000.
The newly-appointed head of the FBI’s Washington, D.C. field office warned this week the agency’s work on January 6 cases will continue for “months and years to come.” Attorney General Merrick Garland released a statement to commemorate the second anniversary of the “attack on the Capitol” with a similar sentiment. “Our work is far from over,” Garland said, boasting how the prosecution “continues to move forward at an unprecedented speed and scale.”
And why shouldn’t it? After all, 18 GOP senators voted to pass the $1.7 trillion omnibus bill last month, which included a $3.5 billion raise for the Justice Department, millions of which will be spent on hiring more government lawyers to prosecute January 6 cases. The FBI won a $570 million boost, bringing the bureau’s total annual budget to more than $11 billion.
Nothing like feeding the wolves eating your herd.
Joe Biden continues to fixate on January 6 in an attempt to brand Trump supporters, or any American who does not blindly embrace the Dear Leader, as “insurrectionists” and “terrorists” endangering the safety of the country. To honor the second anniversary of January 6, Biden will make remarks and hand out Presidential Citizens Medals to individuals who gave televised performances before the January 6 select committee.
The family of Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick will receive a posthumous medal for “[losing] his life protecting our representatives.” Biden, who has difficulty telling the truth about the circumstances of his own son’s death, shamelessly perpetuates the falsehood that Sicknick and several other police officers died as a result of January 6. (In his statement, Garland claimed five police officers died.)
Of course, January 6 propagandists have to lie about what happened to justify comparisons to Pearl Harbor, the Oklahoma City bombing, and 9/11. Their hope is to rally support around the new war on terror, one taking direct aim at Americans on the Right. If Trump supporters are truly America’s version of ISIS, as the regime and the news media insist, then no amount of funding is too much and no criminal prosecution is too excessive to defeat the sworn enemy. Any dissent is unpatriotic.
It’s a feat of political sorcery—fueled by lies, cover-ups, and careerism, not entirely unlike the first war on terror—to transform an unruly, four-hour protest into an act of domestic terror. American families such as the Christensens are merely collateral damage along the way.
About Julie Kelly
Julie Kelly is a political commentator and senior contributor to American Greatness. She is the author of January 6: How Democrats Used the Capitol Protest to Launch a War on Terror Against the Political Right and Disloyal Opposition: How the NeverTrump Right Tried―And Failed―To Take Down the President. Her past work can be found at The Federalist and National Review. She also has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, The Hill, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, and Genetic Literacy Project. She is the co-host of the “Happy Hour Podcast with Julie and Liz.” She is a graduate of Eastern Illinois University and lives in suburban Chicago with her husband and two daughters.
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What is happening with the GOP's inability to choose a Speaker can be viewed as another instance of total incompetence and an inability to coalesce for the benefit of the nation or, because we are an increasingly diverse society, more diverse views are necessary to govern and the Pelosi form of dictatorship type governance in unsuitable. Therefore, what we are watching is democracy and it is often messy.
At some point the GOP must choose a Speaker or blow an opportunity. Whomever is chosen could occupy an office so weakened it no longer will be effective.
Again "we the people's" faith in governance is being tested.
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In keeping with what I have been urging:
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"Billionaire's Club" Focus on Nuclear Could Be Good News for Uranium
Elon Musk has never shied away from expressing his opinions. And recently, he urged countries to increase their nuclear power generation. He said it was "insane from a national security standpoint" to shut down operating plants.
Other members of the "billionaire club" seem to agree... Bill Gates, George Soros, Peter Thiel, Jeff Bezos, and Warren Buffet are also backing advanced nuclear reactors as a vital energy source.
This nuclear revival means that investors are taking a fresh look at uranium. The yellow metal provides the fuel essential to power nuclear power plants of all sizes.
Unfortunately, the domestic mining industry has been dormant for a decade. With the new focus on nuclear energy - and government incentives to push it forward - some industry experts believe a new uranium bull market may be about to take off.
See How This Could Lead to New Opportunities for Investors
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